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Now! Thursday July 28th/Friday 29th: Tracy on BBC-5's Up All Night 9:30 pm Eastern USA/2:30 am GMT with Dr. Petra and Dotun Read an excerpt |
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| Friday, May 14, 2004 Quote of the Month "People looking for a date on Third Avenue make it into a place full of hope and expectation, and this has nothing to do with architecture. Those are the emotions that draw us to cities, and they depend on things being a bit messy." --Jane Jacobs in The New Yorker, May 17, 2004 p.31 Wednesday, May 12, 2004 Appropos of nothing -- I may have reinvented the Manhattan! I made my first Manhattan @ home and used sherry instead of vermouth. A pretty good sherry, as a matter of fact: rare cream Solera superior; a luscious golden cream/delicious and complex (I'm copying the text from the label) ... Emilio Lustau is the maker. I didn't have sweet vermouth (the traditional participant) -- but what care I? Necessity's the surrogate mum of invention. I added Knob Creek Bourbon and two dashes of Angostura bitters. I have to write my (actual) mum and thank her. The Angostura bitters came from her and so did the little blue glass I used for measuring the sherry. It was quite quite refreshing! And Melodie who gave me the Happy Hour cocktail shaker a few years ago! This is the first Non-Martini that I've made in the Happy Hour container and I can't wait to tell her. |
